The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-30
ON RAIL AND cRossTIE.
Local and General Gossip in Railway
Circles.

| been appointed 10 acb as oupeIlnbeuueng ~
the Plant Steamship Line and the Peoples
Line of steamers
Walter G. Coleman, General Travelling
Agent of the Florida Railway and Naviga-
ton Company, passed through the city yes
terday, on his way North.
The Central through freight, due here at
| 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon did not ar
| rive until after 6 O'clock. The delay was
caused by a breakage in the trucks beneath
a car, loaded with pig iron, near the l23
mile post.
The steamship Olivette left New York
Wednesday for Tampa to resume the tri-
weekly service to Havana, commencing
with Jan. !. The days for leaving Tampa
will be Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays
of each week
The Savannah, Florida and Western Rail
way Company is still running its trains via
| Live Oak over the tracks of the Florida
Railway and Navigation Company. Work
ON the ST. Mary's river bridge is being
pushed as rapidly as possible, but it will
| probably be several days yet before it will
be completed.
At Atlanta an application was filed in the
executive Office Wednesday for certificate
of Incorporation under the railroad law of
Georgia for the Cumberland Valley and
! and Nuaka Railroad Company, organized
| for the purpose of building and operating
! railroad through portion of Rabun county.
Two of the incorporators are from Knox
vile, Tenn, and one from Louisville, Ky.
AS the signatures to the petition were not
properly certified to, the Governor declined
for the present to grant 1t.
The Georgia Pacific road has recently
closed contract for 400 new boxes, coal and
flat cars for use on the road from Atlanta
TO Columbus Miss The cars are to be de
livered in February. Four new ten-wheel
freight engines have also been ordered to be
delivered during the same month. Work on
the Columbus and Western is progressing
rapidly, and the bridge across the Coosa
river is about finished About one-third OF
Oak Mountain tunnel is TO be driven yet, as
is also TAI feet of 2,463 feet of the Coosa
mountain tunnel The road will be in opera
ton by April l., 1888,
The Western and Atlantic railroad has,
in proportion to its own mileage, the great
est number of miles reached by its through
car lines of any railroad in America, there
fore, of course, of any railroad in the world.
Its through first class coach lines are as fol-
lows: Atlanta to Waco, Tex, IL IA miles;
Atlanta to Little Rock, Ark, $50 miles;
Chattanooga to Jacksonville, Fla, 52S
miles. The total mileage of its through car
lines, as shown above, is 4, ODD miles one
way But as its through cars start from
each of the termini above shown each day,
the total number of miles per day run by
the through cars which pass over the West
ern and Atlantic is s, 444 miles, or sixty-two
times the length of the Western and At
lantic.
The sixteenth annual meeting of the
Travelling Passenger Agents Association of
the United States and Canada will take
place in Jacksonville Jan. 10. Mr. William
Hill, General Passenger Agent of the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois railroad with his head
| quarters in Chicago, is the moving spirit,
| aud is using extraordinary means to insure
the success of the convention. The attend
ance win be large and the session will be
| full of interest. The Travelling Passenger
l Agents will arrive here byspecial train from
| Atlanta on the morning of Jan. g. They
will remain here during the day and viii
| probably be given an excursion to Tybee
| aud an oyster roast on the beach. AT night
| they will ave for Jacksonville. Travelling
| Passenger Agent Shaw, of the Central rail-
| road, is here now, and will remain to take
charge of the excursionists while they are
| here.
| The Cincinnati Southern, Western and
| Atlantic. Central of Georgia, Brunswick
and Western, and Savannah. Florida and
| Western Railway have organized the fastest
| schedule which has ever been made from
| Cincinnati to Florida. The limited express
| leaves Cincinnati T;55 a. m. daily, with
Mann Boudoir or Pullman Palace Buffet
Sleeper for Waycross without change,
reached at $50 a. M, where connection with
the fast mail of the Savannah, Florida and
Western is made, arriving at jacksonville at
noon No extra fare is asked on the limited
train. To Atlanta the run from Cincinnati
| is made in thirteen hours and ifty-five min
| utes, the quickest time ever established be-
tween the two cities, and affording superior
facilities for passengers destined to all
| points in Georgia and the Carollnas. The
night express with Mann or Pullman Buffet
Sleeper leaves Cincinnati at Up. M, and ar
rives at Jacksonville at 7:25 second morning.
via same route, there being no change of
! sleeper between Cincinnati and Jacksonville
Probably the most economically man
| aged railroad in the world is in
Ross county, Ohio. Its corporate
name is the Cincinnati, Hooking Val
ley and Huntington railroad. II is only
ten miles in length, and was organized and
built mainly by John Karshner, II wealthy
farmer. When the road was built he sold
the crops of his farms for one year
and bought locomotive, which he called
the John Karshner. Then be built COM
bination passenger and baggage ear, and
his equipment was complete. He has been
operating his road for two years, AT first
lie employed a conductor and a freight
agent and followed the custom of larger
|
10 years Of age, he soon dispensed with ala
| superfious services, and he now combines
| within himself the entire list of railroad
men, from owner and President TO copduc-
tor and brakeman. His train goes twice a
day from Adelphi to Kingston and return.
1t will stop on signal at any farmhouse or
crosS-road for passengers or freight. Mr..
Karshner gees ON every train as conductor,
brakeman, baggagemaster, mail and ex-
press agent, and even as news-agent. He
sells no tickets, has no running arrangements
with other roads, has no running accounts
for freight, passengers or express. Every
thing is cash. He does not require book
keeper, nor even clerk.
Boiler-Makers and Machinis.s at Work
Those who visited the MORNING NEWS
building last night thought they were in g
machine shop. A force of boiler-nakers
was at work putting a steel patch on one Of
the boilers that had a hole burned in it from
using artesian water, and number of ma
chinists were engaged in putting up n new
line shaft, ; inches III diameter and 30 feet
feet in length 10 drive the newspaper press
and stereotyping machinery. The latter
work had TO be done between the stoppage
of the newspaper machinery yesterday
morning and the time for starting it again
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